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Never Again

Used to be the best sushi place in the hazel dell area...USED TO BE. Hubby and I were regulars since they first opened and we were treated very well and always enjoyed the food and the staff. We were shocked at how the service has become increasingly worse by the hostess and wait help staff. The ex-wife of the owner (the dragon lady with the big eyes) has always been rude, but now she is particularly vicious and prefers to not serve people and instead prefers to stand in a corner giving customers dirty looks. The quality of the fish has also gone away having been replaced with more roll varieties like every other standard sushi train. Our last visit was Feb 26, 2011. The restaurant was not busy during dinner, yet we were not greeted and the wait help woud not help us. We seated ourselves. There was barely any sushi on the conveyor belt so we waited to order directly from the sushi chef. The chef serving our section, one we had not seen before, refused to speak with us and refused to allow us to place an order. Yet he kept asking others if they would like anything else. We preceded to eat some of the sushi on the belt, and soon discovered the pieces seemed to have been there for a while due to the texture. We had to flag down a new waitress in another section to get beverages, and she was shocked when she found out we had not been helped. She got us drinks, the wrong drinks, but she tried. We decided to immediately leave and finish what we thought might be a nice romantic dinner at Sushi Chiyo in Salmon Creek. The people there were nice and made sure to ask frequently if they could make us something special. Sushi Tsunami is so done - no more of our hard earned money will be spent there.

fresh and tasty!

Average Rating

80

ordered take out- not something i would normally do on my first visit to a restraunt, but i really wanted sushi and it was close by....since saburo doesnt do takeout it was a reasonable choice...there was some confusion with my order- they dont actually speak japanese here and all of the sushi is described in english, but what i did receive was fresh, well prepared and very reasonable priced :) really enjoyed the smoked salmon- not overly smoked and left me wanting more!